Alex Hayes, This Is Local London, 26th February, 2009 A landmark High Wycombe garage will close its doors for the final time on Saturday. The SMC MG Rover garage is closing […]
RAC News, 26th February, 2009 A proposed one-year pay freeze and four-day week at Tata-owned car giant Jaguar Land Rover are to be put to the vote next week. The […]
Prague Daily Monitor/Czech News Agency(CTK), 27th February, 2009 The Czech military wants to purchase another 79 Land Rover Defender off-road utility vehicles by the end of November, First Deputy Defence […]
George Gao, Shanghai, Gasgoo.com, 24th February, 2009 In its effort to cut costs, Chinese auto giant SAIC is merging the sales networks of its Roewe and MG brands and aims […]
Gasgoo.com, Shanghai, 26th February, 2009 Chinese firms will agree to pay a combined $615 million for 3,000 Jaguar and 6,000 Land Rover automobiles during a government-led trip to the U.K., […]
Jonathan Guthrie in Birmingham, Financial Times, 27th February, 2009 LDV, the troubled Birmingham vanmaker that is seeking government aid, said on Friday that an unnamed bidder had proposed to buy […]
Keith Adams So, it looks like it could be the end for LDV and I, for one, can’t help but feel that these are increasingly looking like desperate times for […]
Jonathan Guthrie, Financial Times, 23rd February, 2009 A management team hopes to buy LDV, the troubled Birmingham vanmaker that ceased production in December. It is seeking a bridging loan from […]
John Reed in Detroit, Financial Times, 24th February, 2009 Worldwide, people defaulting on mortgages are leaving homes behind. In the car industry, manufacturers are cutting their losses and ditching subsidiaries. […]
Michael Kavanagh, Financial Times, 24th February, 2009 Workers at Jaguar Land Rover will hold a ballot on a deal aimed at avoiding compulsory job losses for two years in exchange […]
Philip Stafford, Financial Times, 16th February, 2009 BMW confirmed on Monday that 850 jobs will be cut and operating times shortened at its Mini manufacturing plant at Cowley in Oxfordshire […]
Keith Adams So, after ten days in Egypt covering the Nile Trial, where the temperature refused to dip below 25 degrees, I step off a plane at Heathrow only to […]
Keith Adams Last night, the competitors’ cars on the Nile Trial 2009 rolled in to Giza. And what a sight they made after the organized chaos of the roads I […]
Ian Nicholls Some time ago I wrote a blog detailing how I was using The Times Online archive service to research the history of British Leyland from 1968 to 1985. […]
Keith Adams I sit here writing this from a hotel balcony in Gisa, Egypt with a view overlooking two of the pyramids. It’s warm and balmy, with the temperature sure […]
Update: 1 February 2009 The Tomcat is now on the road. Rather like getting a chocolate gateaux out of the freezer, and having to endure the agonizing defrost period before […]
Graham Eason runs a classic car hire business called Great Escapes, and one of his fleet is this magnificent 1974 Jaguar XJ6 4.2 in long wheelbase form. As you can […]
James Fontanella-Khan in Mumbai and Amy Kazmin in New Delhi FT.com, 30th January, 2009 India’s two largest carmakers were hard hit by plunging car sales in the last quarter of […]
International Herald Tribune/Associated Press, 30th January, 2009 MUMBAI, India – Tata Motors lost 2.63bn rupees ($54 million) last quarter as cost-cutting efforts failed to make up for withering demand, high […]
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